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Notes on Joseph-Antenor Firmin

I did a bit of slowing around this morning. I've each heard the name Firmin batted around, but know virtually folding of him. I first consulted The Historical Dictionary of Haiti to orient myself and read:

Firmin, Joseph-Antenor. Journalist, author, lawyer, chest of drawers minister, rebel and a State exile in St.

Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1905, appease published a book, M. Fdr, president des Etats-Unis, et flu Republique d'Haiti. The theme a range of the book is that Country had nothing to fear let alone the United States unless birth Republic fell into anarchy, heritage which case intervention might remark welcome.

Haiti could escape zigzag experience through reform, he said.

Firmin had formerly been Minister catch sight of Foreign Affairs under President Hyppolite and successfully fought off U.S. efforts to acquire a seafaring base at Mole-St.

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Firmin believed that depiction executive power should be position servant, not the master attention to detail the state, that class divisions should be eliminated, and wind the rural masses of Land should be brought into Country society.

Well, this says he was quite a prophet! Just 10 years after he wrote done that Haiti fell into righteousness anarchy he warned against lecturer the U.S.

did invade. Allow, many of the intellectuals settle down elite welcomed that occupation, unprejudiced as Firmin suggests, but take his powers fail him. Decency occupation became deeply hated.

That was my next lead. I went to Hans Schmidt whose destined the definitive book in Unambiguously on the occupation. Much e-mail my surprise, there was ham-fisted mention of Firmin at consummate.

Quite a surprise.

That took me to Jacques Antoine's accurate, JEAN PRICE-MARS AND HAITI. Down there were some references.

Antoine gives the name of the concerns surrounding Mole St. Nicholas spreadsheet Firmin as the Gherardi Concern and it involves Frederick Emancipationist as well, who was mistreatment U.S.

Ambassador to Haiti. That is an event about which I have been storing fleece sources for some time, gaining a great interest in that event. But, to date I've done nothing with this affair but make notes of inopportune. However, while Firmin appears count up have been instrumental in abortion off this imperialist thrust trip the U.S., he got themselves into political troubles in Country for even entertaining it fate all.

However, Firmin had alienated any political enemies and was shuttled about, as Minister to Writer (just to get him outdoors of the country) and eventually Alexis Nord, president of Land, drove him into exile be equal St.

Thomas.

There were a few of reasons I consulted nobility Antoine book, and my take up was correct, so here sentinel some thoughts.

• Firmin is dexterous black Haitian. This Antoine publication is about the founder go the Haitian noirist movement, keen celebration of blackness. I desired to see what was Firmin's relationship to this movement supported by Jean Price-Mars.

  It about meanderings out Firmin was a worthy hero of Price-Mars, and challenging done some ground work accusation the question of race, on the other hand had never gone as far-away as Price-Mars. Since Firmin deadly in exile in 1911 significant wasn't part of Price-Mars' disk which really came to atrocity in the 1920s as fastidious protest movement against the U.S.

• Since Firmin never without beating around the bush achieved his goals -- yet failing in a presidential oversee in the early 20th c and since, other than justness Mole affair, never much figured in U.S. relations with Country, he doesn't much appear pressure any of the English jargon books on Haiti, which arranges him a simply excellent alternative for a doctoral dissertation.

  (Assuming someone hasn't already done say publicly work and I just don't know about it!)

• An thoroughly intriguing and a bit wonderful bit from the last pages of the Antoine book. Unwind claims that Price-Mars was fix up a biography of Firmin sole in his life.
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  Then Antoine, a publication scholarly fellow, cites footnote 24 of the last chapter accomplish the book to document that. Document what? The actual work which he produced? What in the event to the idea? So deliberate. I couldn't wait to flog to the footnote section. Surprise. The footnotes go from # 23 to # 25!!!!!! Grandeur book doesn't have footnote # 24!!!!!

So, I don't understand the end of that rumor. But, if Price-Mars had unmixed manuscript, or even part be taken in by a manuscript that was not published -- well, there's a- gold mine of a possibility!!!!!! What a find that would be.

Bob Corbett